Sheriff's Sgt. Jonathan Hughes says the plane went down about noon Tuesday in a field just south of the airport in Wappinger, 65 miles north of New York City.

Salac says federal investigators at the scene have reported the plane was destroyed and both victims died. The Dutchess County Sheriff's office identified them only as males, one from Dutchess County and one from Putnam County.

The cause of the crash hasn't been determined.

No phone number is available for the plane's owner, Millbrook Flight LLC, of nearby Poughquag.